I just felt the need to weigh on on the Jon and Kate debacle because I'm absolutely enraged. We don't have satellite anymore so I didn't watch the infamous episode announcing their separation but I did read several recaps and then caught the new info that they are divorcing online. Let me just say....."YOU HAVE 8 FREAKING KIDS!" Have they even given counseling a try. Everyone and their brother is giving them free stuff, e.g. tummy tuck, hair implants, free vacations, etc.... but no one seems to be ponying up the real help they need. Why is it that people will offer up things that are meaningless considering their situation now but not something that will help this family stay together? However, it's their responsibility to pony up the money themselves and get the help they need because you have 8 kids that really need both parents all the time.
This brings me to my next point, do fertility clinics do any sort of screening before people are allowed to get treatments that will potentially yield an obscene amount of children? I understand people want to have children and it's devastating that they can't have them without the help of treatments but seriously they already had twins so it wasn't like they weren't parents already. Then once they have the 8 kids there should be built in therapy on how to deal with all that responsibility and stress that goes along with raising a set of twins and sextuplets. It should be a package deal, fertility treatments with counseling before, during, and afterwards.
My last point, T.L*C needs to cancel the show. They have got to know that continuing with the show is not in the best interest of the kids. I can guarantee that those kids are not going to grow up and be eternally grateful that they have their childhood on tape, WTF. Jon and Kate always give this bull**it excuse that they do the show to record the childhood memories. I'm pretty sure that those kids aren't going to want to watch episodes upon episodes of their mom treating their dad like a piece of crap. All I can say is that I hope those kids have a snowballs chance in hell to grow up normal without severe psychological problems, but I'm afraid that the damage is already done.
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This is a hard one to weigh in on for me...in one sense I do agree that they must be crazy to get divorced. Raising 8 children as single parents would be insane. However, those two never seemed like a match to me, and hearing her bark at him like he's some kind of inferior being (I'd never talk to my husband like that...totally disrespectful) and watch him play the part of the wet blanket can't be good for those children either. I honestly think having 8 children was probably not the biggest problem for these two...I think it was just a matter of two people who got married who shouldn't have. You see it all the time.
As far as the topic of fertility clinics requiring screening for potential parents...well...I sort of see your point, but I can't say that I agree. Do you really think if Jon and Kate Gosselin had gone through a screening process that they wouldn't have passed? They aren't the worst parents in the world...they just don't get along...like half the parents in this country. To say that they didn't really need more kids because they were already parents or because they already had twins just because there was a risk of treatment yielding several children...again, to me, that's not really fair. Maybe it's because of my personal experience, but if any dumbass out there can have a boat load of kids then I don't want anyone telling me I need counseling or an evaluation before I can have mine.
Thanks for your comment and I see your point but it's sad to think that Jon and Kate had 6 kids, totaling 8 if they shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. It's really devastating for these kids and though maybe they weren't the best match it seems like counseling could help with some of their issues before they just throw in the towel on their marriage. I do agree that it's not good for the kids to see their parents relate to each other like they do but a lot of the damage is already done in my opinion.
I know if there was a screening process that they would have passed but my point was more the counseling for afterwards. I was in no means saying that they shouldn't be allowed to have more kids, my point was that maybe 6 was too many, and I definitely don't know a whole lot about fertility, maybe that's totally impossible to control. People that have one or two kids via fertlity treatments don't really need the counseling that I was speaking of because I'm pretty sure most people could handle a few kids on their own without counseling. Having a large number at one time has to be ultra stressful and then very draining afterwards.
I understand your point that you wouldn't want to be screened before having kids because anyone out there can have kids, but it just seems that if you are having a procedure that could yield a lot of babies it would be helpful, your procedure didn't seem to have that the chance to have a great number of babies, did it, I'm not sure.
Just to be sure I've clearly conveyed my point I do not believe that people using fertility treatments that have one or two kids should have a prescreening or counseling, but 8 kids, 6 all the same age, now that I do believe needs some support.
Counseling with multiples would be a great idea I think. I mean Kate always said how parents of multiples have the highest divorce rates.
At any rate, I am so sick of these people. Jon's a douche and Kate's a bitch (sorry to be so blunt - can you tell I'm sick of them?). I feel so bad for their kids, especially when the cameras leave. Those cameras have been a part of the sextuplets lives' since infancy... they will have such a hard time dealing! Ugh...
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